F-35: What The Pilots Say

Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say by dodobirdlord on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:22AM (#19509496)

It would be pretty bizarre to refuse on principal to learn from experience. The F35 is expected to be in use through the 2060s. Part of the engineering challenge is designing around the fact that human pilots are expected to be phased out mid-lifecycle for these airframes.

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Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say by threeseed on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:34AM (#19509541)

Not just that human pilots would be phased out.

But that the F-35 is planned on being a command and control centre for a fleet of drones flying alongside it.

In that context weapons capabilities and dogfighting aren't important but its key strengths in stealth and sensor unification definitely are.

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Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say by Already__Taken on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:48AM (#19510662)

Isn't this being sort for beta-phase at the moment because currently the f35 doing the targeting doesn't have to be the one launching the weaponry?

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Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say by FrojoS on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:57AM (#19511278)

Wouldn't the sensors and fusion system be entirely swapped out in that case, too?

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Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say by james_s_tayler on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:29AM (#19509520)

The whole thing makes a lot more sense knowing just that.

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Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say by neuronic on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:43AM (#19510636)

I have read countless of pieces bashing the F-35 without ever mentioning strategic details like that...

I suppose propaganda and political articles tend to put a spin on everything after all...

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